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Originally posted by Neulude
Uh brah: frt brakes take 70% of the load...ABS will also make this mixmatched pair in the rear a NON ISSUE. Also: the rear axle is not a "drive axle" so when cornering hard, it aint gonna cause an oversteer problem cause the tires are just gripping the road/rolling at the same time..NOT BEING "driven" by a cv shaft. The rear is a follower....Not a driver.... Under EXTREME conditions: as long as the tread is good and the speed ratings are the same, it aint gonna matter if you have a RE92 with 8/32 and another tire with FULL depth on the rear... Now if you put a lower speed rated tire on the car/mixmatch that, then the perofrmance of the CAR is now limited by the lowest speed rated tire... BUT all the tires we've discussed so far are V rated..so no problems...I cna see how your theory works, but this isn't for a 4wd/awd vehicle... Even if you were to autocross the car with a mixmatched pair in the rear... You shouldn't have a problem...
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Schwett's comments are good - but I thought I'd add some.
In a right hand turn, more weight is transferred to the left side of the car. Vice versa on a left hand turn. So with a funky rear left tire, a hard right turn will overload the rear more quickly than a hard left turn.
On the braking issue, of course the front brakes take on more load than the rear. That's not the point. The point is that the brake distrubution
is even left to right. So with one tire with less traction, it's going to reach it's limits sooner, causing it to possibly lock.
As far as the ABS issue, I'm not sure. I remember reading at one point about how different ABS systems have different capabilities. Some are able to control each brake individually, but most aren't able to do that. I want to say that standard Honda ABS has individual control on the front brakes, and controls the rears as one. But I could be mistaken - and I can't seem to find my source.
Anyone have any info on that?
Last summer I was forced to ride on one winter tire for a few miles due to a puncture. So three 205/50-16 A520's on stock wheels, and one 185/65-15 Blizzak on the right rear. It was pretty scary. Granted, that's an extreme example, with differing speed ratings, manufacturer, size, weight, tread, etc. . . . .
